Summary: Set in S3E14 when Andrea was trying to get to the prison and the Governor was chasing after her to get her back and punish her. What if Merle had found them and found out what was happening? What would he do? What would happen?
It was a beautiful day, as Merle walked towards a guy in Woodbury.
“The Governor should be back by now. I'm going to make sure everything is okay,” he informed him. He then looked up at the wall at Tyrese. “You're in charge until he gets back.”
As he left Woodbury, he hoped everything was okay. He wasn't loyal to him like everybody thought. He acted like he was loyal to the Governor, but it was only an act. He was loyal to his brother, Daryl. Nobody else. If he was loyal to somebody else though, it would probably be Andrea. He had a thing for her, but they never got together, because last time they were both in Ric's group, he had called her a whore. He knew he had been an ass to her, but he was always an ass, because nobody really liked him. He was always on his own. He told himself that he didn't care that he was on his own, but it was a lie. He wanted someone with him; mostly his brother. He would settle for Andrea if he wanted or had to, though. If it really came down to it, he would protect Andrea with his life. He'd do the same thing for Daryl, too. He had always done what he could to protect and raise his brother, but it wasn't much. Like his brother knew, Merle had never really been there for him. But then things changed when the outbreak happened. Merle and Daryl had each other's backs.
When he found them, Andrea was running from him and ran into Merle.
“Hey, Blondie. What's going on here?”
Knowing Merle just might be her only hope in actually escaping from him, she told him.
“I'm trying to get back to the prison. He's trying to stop me.”
The Governor came up to them.
“She's lying. She's trying to kill me.”
“I know her well enough that I know that if she's trying to kill you, it's because you're trying to get away with something that's wrong. I also know that she wouldn't lie, so that means she's telling the truth. So why don't you go back to Woodbury before something happens to you out here,” Merle said, siding with Andrea.
“Are you threatening me?” The Governor inquired of him, up close in front of him.
“It'll be more than a threat if you don't let her do what she wants. She's her own person. She doesn't need you telling her what to do. She doesn't take orders from people like you. So you should go now before things turn bad for you.”
Merle and the Governor gave one another a long glare.
Merle took a step back and waited for what the Governor would do.
The Governor had a gray hatchet in hand, so he raised it and went to strike, but Merle was quick and used the sharp part of his arm brace to kill him.
Ass, he thought.
He turned to her.
“We should get going. We have a long walk ahead of us.”
They started to walk. And as they did, she said, “Thank you.”
“You would've probably done the same for me or the others,” he responded.
A while afterward, they finally found the prison.
“Kill them if they get close to either of us. He took my gun, so I don't have a weapon,” she said, before walking towards the prison, hands in surrender mode.
He followed after her, ready if any walkers got close to either Andrea or himself.
Soon enough, they got inside with the help of Ric, Carol, and Daryl.
“You're back,” Daryl said, looking at them.
“Well, I wasn't going to leave blondie alone out there after I found out the Governor's intentions,” Merle replied.
“What do you mean?” Ric asked him, wanting to know more.
“The Governor tried to stop me from coming here. He was going to do anything he could to keep me from coming here. I made up my choice. I belong here. You're my family,” she informed them.
“How did you get here without him following you?” Ric asked her.
“Merle killed him to stop him.”
Everyone was silent, until Carol said, “We should go back inside.”
So, they all went inside the prison and towards the cell block where they stayed at. And in the end, they accepted both of them into their group.
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